Work placements

Ness and Franklin

YWCA... stands for Young Women's Christian Association. They deal with issues of Gender Based Violence, mainly involving cases of spousal battery, defilement, child abuse, property grabbing, rape and matrionial despute.

At the Co-ordinated Response clients come in for counselliong, paralegal advice and to seek shelter. YWCA also runs sensitisation programmes in the community and runs workshops.

One thing we have achieved is we planned, implimented and facilitated workshops on GBV issues in four different schools in Chipata. At the end we organised a quiz and debayed contest between schools, which clearly indicated how much the pupils had learnt.

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Paul and Valley
Kwacha Kum'awa
- Distibutes information to the youth about issues such as abstinence, condomising and HIV/AIDS through the magazine
-Goes into schools and churches to talk about these issues.
-We achieved educating the youth
-Enjoyed most talking to the women in the church and seeing the participation activity.

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Luchembe and Eliot
Youth Care Entertainment
YCE is a organisation that focuses on empowering, educating and entertaining youths through thte mediums of music, film and sports. Its main area of work is in the Mchini compound within Chipata district.

During the past three months Eliot and Luchembe have spent most of their time planning a youth development and resource centre that will be set up within the Mchini compound. They hope this will have a positive impact on the community and be of much use to YCE and Mchini.

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Matt and Mwata
St Paul's Anglican Project
St Paul's is a faith based NGO that works with many projects including agriculture, health, women empowerment, youths and water and sanitation. During our time with them we have supported people living with HIV/AIDS, designed and delivered workshops on water sanitation, waterborne diseases, HIV/AIDS and malaria and also trained a youth group in Chipungu village to continue to disseminate information in a sustainable way to surrounding villages.

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Jackson and Jessy
Young Happy Healthy Safe

YHHS focus on creating a happy, healthy an dsafe environment for young people. It works in rural communities and within schools providing sexuality and life skills. It works with traditional initiators in an effort to challenge traditions that pose a risk to young people.

At our workplacement we ahve enjoyed creating a web blog for our organisation, which will hopefully be soemthing sustainable for the NGO. Please visit www.younghappyhealthyandsafe.blogspot.com.

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Maggie, Ngawa and Tommy
Great Commission for People Development and Orphans
GCPDO empowers rural communities in the Eastern Province of Zambia to eradicate poverty through sustainable development by trageting education, income-generating activiites, food security production, health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, water-sanitation and advocacy in lobbying.

We ahve built relationships through focus group discussions with people in the communities we are trying to help in order to create accurate brochures on the above topics. It's been an amazing experience and we've learnt so much about community development and attitues towards change.

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Christina and Mwansa
Treatment Advocacy Literacy Campaign

Our organisation is on advocacy and treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS. We enjoyed working together and comminicating well, and meeting people with different experience of HIV such as nurses, doctors, ministers and support groups. We achieved the sensitisation fo mothers on female condoms and research and advocacy for improvement of ART (anti-retroviral therapy)

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Prudence and Charlotte
Tikondane Home Based Care Foundation
Tikondane is an organisation involved in HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. It also provides support and activities for orphans and vulnerable children and children affected by HIV/AIDS. As well as helping out with the great variety of activities and projects taking place within the organisation we also initiated a project. We planned and implemented a jewellery making activity and co-operative in order to provide an activity for clients which teaches skills, brings communities together, provides a gathering for focused group discussions and sensitisation, as well as being an income generating activity.